Network Automation and Data Analysis

This repo contains various Python script and testing documentation explaining how to automate and analyze data in networking. As a basis we took Microsoft Azure SONiC, which is one of the most quickly developing networking platforms for high- and hyper- scale data centres. In such settings the proper management can be achieved only via automation and programmability. The good news is that SONiC supports a great protocol for such a purpose - GNMI, which gives you possibility to do collection of network data or perform configuration in a transactional mode as well as to collect the streaming and event-based telemetry data.

Prepare SONiC to work with GNMI

1. Get latest stables SONiC
2. Follow the steps to configure GNMI provided in this guide

How to use this repository

1. Clone it to your host.
2. Install the content of requirements.txt for your Python.
3. Ensure you followed steps above, create certificates and copied them to local directory certs.
4. Amend the credentials in the python files.
5. Run the python sonic_test.py or sonic_gnmi_to_spreadsheet.py.